Language Development
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Primary Language Impairments in Children
Primary language impairments have major consequences for a child’s educational and social development, including literacy, and were a key focus in the Bercow review of services to children with speech, language and communication needs. This evidence-based text focuses on how best to help children –...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia
Series: Explorations in Mental Health
This book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis. Psychopathological symptoms in...
To Be Published October 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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Uncommon Understanding (Classic Edition)
Development and disorders of language comprehension in children
Series: Psychology Press Classic Editions
This is a 'classic edition' of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning text on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997 and now includes a new introduction from the author. It integrates research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Language Competence Across Populations
Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment
This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities. The...
Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
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Handbook of Orthography and Literacy
Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Children's Language
Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence
These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...
Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
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Children's Language
Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development
These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Kids' Slips
What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development
The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips, there...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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From Orthography to Pedagogy
Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky
From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...
Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2
Typological and Contextual Perspectives
Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics
Four Cornerstones
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....
Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge





